You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me

[venta]

Walking round Tesco (pausing only to be amused by the sign which said "Stoned Fruit", because I'm very juvenile) I spotted on the fish counter some peppered mackerel fillets, 49p each.

Thinking they'd be nice in my dinnertime sarnies, and that they were very cheap, I bought a couple.

Standing at the checkout queue I observed the label the fish-counter lady has stuck on them: Hot Smoked Peppered Mackerel, Will Contain Bones. What?

After I'd paid, I went back to the fish counter to check. Yep, the label says Hot Smoked Peppered Mackerel Fillets.

And on my purchase: Will Contain Bones.

The thing about fillets, Tesco...

Post-buttie update: no bones. Halfwits.

(In case anyone's confused, the fish is cold. There's a process called "hot smoking".)

Comments

[venta.livejournal.com]

It should indeed be Hot-Smoked, but it isn't - at least, not on Tesco's labels.

Mind you, I have to admit that I only learned about that hyphen-when-adjectivicating rule a few months back. From a friend whose third language is English. Apparently her school actually taught her that kind of thing.

[onebyone.livejournal.com]

I think I learnt more English grammar from my French and German teachers than my English teachers.